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Find Out What the Buyer's Inspector Will Find, First

Every seller finds out what is wrong with their house eventually. A pre-listing inspection lets you choose when.

The logic is straightforward. A buyer is going to order an inspection regardless — the only real question is whether you learn what it will say before you list or after you are already under contract and facing a repair request with a clock running. A pre-listing inspection gives you the same list early enough to act on it: fix what is worth fixing, get ahead of the rest with a straightforward disclosure, and go into negotiations having already dealt with the surprises instead of discovering them mid-transaction.

It also changes the tone of the sale. A seller who can hand a buyer a recent inspection report, alongside receipts for anything that was addressed, is negotiating from a position most sellers do not have. It will not eliminate a buyer's own inspection or every point of negotiation, but it removes the ambush factor, and an ambush is usually where a deal gets renegotiated hardest or falls apart entirely.

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